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El origen de la “primera generación” de reformas de paridad de género en América Latina: evidencia de Argentina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019)
Este artículo explora la emergencia temprana de leyes de paridad en el ámbito subnacional de Argentina, focalizándose en un conjunto de normas adoptadas con anterioridad a su inclusión en las constituciones y en la legislación ...
Chocolate money
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
Why did people exert considerable eort ongold production when chocolate is cheaper and it can serve as money as well? Production costs determine a commodity’s use as money, as a consumption good, or as both. Three results ...
Disruptors and discontented incumbents: an antitrust story retold
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
The objective of this document is to shed light on the current competition policy and regulatory discusión by observing the facts, the speed of intervention and the effects on the entry of Roku into the Mexican market. We ...
The rise and fall of Argentina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-15)
I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy ...
Property rights and intellectual property protection, GDP growth and individual well-being in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-04)
A central argument for increased protections of property rights (PR) is the role they play in encouraging economic transactions, investment and economic growth. Likewise, the utilitarian justification of intellectual ...
Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-14)
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, ...
Skills versus suck: Bolivia and its recent bonanza
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-07-29)
This paper uses different approaches to determine the contribution of internal policies and external factors on the good performance of the Bolivian economy in the recent past. It is demonstrated that the extremely favorable ...
Endogenous search concentration in OTC markets
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
To explain the core-periphery structure observed in many OTC markets we augment a random matching model in three ways: we introduce preference heterogeneity in types and allow agents to choose how intense they meet specific ...
The impact of competition with China in the US market on innovation in Mexican manufacturing firms
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-05-29)
Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China for the US market on the innovation efforts of the Mexican manufacturing sector. After controlling for ...
Adoption of inclusive insurance contracts: an empirical study in Guatemala
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
This paper examines the role played by financial capabilites in an individual’s decisión to purchase an inclusive insurance product in Guatemala. We elaborated and conducted a survey of simples of both non-insured individuals ...